International affairs
Embassies, foreign aid, and keeping friends abroad. A slice people guess is huge, but it is about one cent of every dollar.
What the money shows
The government spent $71.6B on International affairs in 2025, which is 0.7% of all spending that year. International affairs outlays are down 37.9% from 2017. OMB history lists International affairs at 5.3% of federal outlays in 1962 and 0.7% in 2025. Department of State, the largest agency in this category, handles 59.8% of its latest outlay. The linked lobbying register category is Foreign-policy advocacy.
Sources: USAspending · OMB Historical Tables
Agencies spending it
Latest fiscal year, top agencies from USAspending.
Lobbying in this sector
Up to five leading foreign-policy advocacy clients in the lobby register.
Share since 1962
OMB history plus live rows once ingested.
Bills moving money here
A sector-filtered doorway into the bills register.
Open bills in Foreign-policy advocacy >